Taisuke Murakami,
Art Gallery: N-Space contributor

'I wanted to create a new medium, which uses a combination of reality
images and computer graphics' said Taisuke Murakami.

Murakami is a media artist from Japan, and the person behind the
installation "Contact World" at the Art Gallery: N-Space
at SIGGRAPH 2001.

Contact
Water is something totally different from an ordinary art. The spectators
are participating together in a kind of semi-virtual world, or rather
MRS  Mixed Reality Space. They are looking through their virtual
reality goggles, and throwing virtual fishes to each other or back
to the central fountain in the middle.

The hand is in general very important for communication so therefore
I wanted to use it when I created this new medium, says Taisuke
Murakami.
Murakami's idea was realized into practice thanks to a collaboration
between Murakami and Canon Inc. after it was awarded the first grand
prize at the Mixed Reality Entertainment Conference in year 2000.